‘What does PM stand by’: Rahul on Centre’s stand on Covid-19 vaccine

Former Congress occasion chief Rahul Gandhi hit out on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led authorities on Thursday for ambiguity within the vaccine coverage of the nation, looking for readability over the identical.

“PM – Everyone will get vaccine. BJP in Bihar elections- Everyone in Bihar will get free vaccine. Now, GOI- Never said everyone will get vaccine. Exactly what does the PM stand by,” Gandhi mentioned in a tweet.

Gandhi’s tweet got here in response to the federal government stating on Tuesday that it has not talked about vaccinating the whole inhabitants of the nation in opposition to the coronavirus illness (Covid-19), at the same time as India reported 9,462,809 infections and 137,621 associated deaths that day.

“I just want to make this clear that the government has never spoken about vaccinating the entire country. It’s important that we discuss such scientific issues, based on factual information only,” Rajesh Bhushan, secretary, Union well being ministry, had mentioned.

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Bhushan had additionally mentioned that the typical each day positivity price in India has been 3.72% and with 211 circumstances per million, India has the bottom circumstances per million depend “among all the big nations”. While knowledge from the final seven days signifies that circumstances are rising in European nations, the cumulative positivity price has decreased in India, he had famous. The cumulative positivity price fell from 7.15% to six.69% between November 11 and December 1. The variety of recoveries had exceeded the variety of new Covid-19 infections in India within the month of November, Bhushan added.

A contentious level, nevertheless, in BJP’s manifesto introduced forward of the Bihar election was that the vaccine could be administered without cost to everybody within the state. The promise had drawn the ire of the Opposition, with the events asking the Election Commission to strike it down.